Motivational Quotes

Love

Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love.

- Gandhi, Mahatma

Best Quotes about Love

What power is it which mounts my love so high, that makes me see, and cannot feed mine eye?

William Shakespeare

Some relationships start with fights... But, usually only in romantic comedies. Life's not the movies.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

The hottest love has the coldest end.

Socrates

Be that self which one truly is.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves. We cannot force love.

Hazlitt, William

The chameleon Love can feed on the air.

William Shakespeare

But true love is a durable fire, in the mind ever burning. Never sick, never old, never dead. From itself never turning.

Naturally, love's the most distant possibility.

Bataille, Georges

We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it.

Lennon, John

10.

Love is inseparable from knowledge.

Macarius of Egypt, St.

11.

Immature love says: I love you because I need you. Mature love says: I need you because I love you.

Fromm, Erich

12.

If that the world and love were young, And truth in every shepherd's tongue, These pretty pleasures might me move To live with thee and be thy love.

William Shakespeare

13.

This world is not for aye, nor'tis not strange That even our loves should with our fortunes change. For'tis a question left us yet to prove, Whether love lead fortune, or else fortune love.

William Shakespeare

14.

Do not wish to be anything except what you are.

Francis De Sales, St.

15.

Dive deep, O mind, dive deep in the ocean of God's beauty! If you descend to the uttermost depths, there you will find the gem of love.

Hymn, Bengali

16.

The season of love is the carnival of egoism and it brings a touchstone to our natures.

Meredith, George

17.

Fall not in love, therefore; it will stick to your face.

National Lampoon

18.

I love you, not for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.

Croft, Roy

19.

Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds.

William Shakespeare

20.

I hated her now with a hatred more fatal than indifference because it was the other side of love.

Strindberg, J. August

21.

A good relationship is like fireworks: loud, explosive, and liable to maim you if you hold on too long.

Jeph Jacques

22.

What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels.

Augustine, St.

23.

A supreme love, a motive that gives a sublime rhythm to a woman's life, and exalts habit into partnership with the soul's highest needs, is not to be had where and how she wills.

Eliot, George

24.

It is by loving and by being loved that one can come nearest to the soul of another.

Mcdonald, George

25.

The love of those we don't love in return settles on the surface and from there quickly evaporates.

Paolo Giordano

26.

Who travels for love finds a thousand miles not longer than one.

Proverb, Japanese

27.

Madame, it is an old word and each one takes it new and wears it out himself. It is a word that fills with meaning as a bladder with air and the meaning goes out of it as quickly. It may be punctured as a bladder is punctured and patched and blown up again and if you have not had it does not exist for you. All people talk of it, but those who have had it are marked by it, and I would not wish to speak of it further since of all things it is the most ridiculous to talk of and only fools go through it many times.

Hemingway, Ernest

28.

The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're still alive.

Battista, Orlando A.

29.

Love is swift, sincere, pious, joyful, generous, strong, patient, faithful, prudent, long-suffering, courageous, and never seeking its own; for wheresoever a person seeketh his own, there he falleth from love.

Kempis, Thomas

30.

When you interact with another, an illusion is part of this dynamic. This illusion allows each soul to perceive what it needs to understands in order to heal.

Zukav, Gary

31.

Love is a serious mental disease.

Plato

32.

When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other, it seems to me, in spite of such obstacles dividing them as parents or husband, that they belong to each other in the name of Nature, and are lovers by Divine right, in spite of human convention or the laws.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

33.

Love seeks no cause beyond itself and no fruit; it is its own fruit, its own enjoyment. I love because I love; I love in order that I may love.

Bernard, St.

34.

You talk too much, you laugh too loud, that's the price of love.

Ferry, Brian

35.

It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

36.

Such is the inconsistency of real love, that it is always awake to suspicion, however unreasonable; always requiring new assurances from the object of its interest.

Ann Radcliffe

37.

To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are.

38.

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

Carl Jung

39.

Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow.

Proverb

40.

Love the art in yourself and not yourself in the art.

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

41.

It is here, my daughters, that love is to be found -- not hidden away in corners but in the midst of occasions of sin. And believe me, although we may more often fail and commit small lapses, our gain will be incomparably the greater.

Teresa of Avila, St.

42.

To love one child and to love all children, whether living or dead --somewhere these two loves come together. To love a no-good but humble punk and to love an honest man who believes himself to be an honest man --somewhere these, too, come together.

Duras, Marguerite

43.

It has ever been since time began, and ever will be, till time lose breath, that love is a mood --no more --to man, and love to a woman is life or death.

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

44.

Love is life's end, but never ending. Love is life's wealth, never spent, but ever spending. Love's life's reward, rewarded in rewarding.

Spencer, Herbert

45.

What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.

Bailey, Pearl

46.

Love is a conflict between reflexes and reflections.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

47.

My wife heard me say I love you a thousand times, but she never once heard me say sorry

Willis, Bruce

48.

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

Friedrich Nietzsche

49.

Love, love, love -- all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental postures, a welter of self-induced miseries and joys, blinding and masking the essential personalities in the frozen gestures of courtship, in the kissing and the dating and the desire, the compliments and the quarrels which vivify its barrenness.

Greer, Germaine

50.

Accept yourself as you are. Otherwise you will never see opportunity. You will not feel free to move toward it; you will feel you are not deserving.

Maltz, Maxwell